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Gusto

Overview

What is Gusto?

Gusto offers payroll, benefits and compliance capabilities. Gusto is scaled for small to mid-sized businesses, and emphasizes an easy to use interface.

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Pricing

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Simple: A streamlined set of automatic payroll features and benefits integrations

$40/month + $6/mo per person

Cloud
$12 per employee/contractor

Plus: Comprehensive payroll, benefits, and HR tools for employers building a great place to work

$80/month + $12/mo per person

Cloud

Premium: Scalable payroll and benefits, expert HR, and dedicated support for the complex needs of growing teams

Exclusive pricing, contact Gusto

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://gusto.com/product/pricing?utm_s…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $46 per month
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Product Demos

Gusto Payroll Demo

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Gusto Demo: Payroll, benefits, and HR for small business

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.8
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Gusto?

Gusto is an online HR platform that aims to help small businesses take care of their teams. Gusto products and services help customers onboard, pay, insure, and engage their team in one integrated platform. Gusto aims to make taking care of teams a joyful experience, while helping users manage their bottom line and stay compliant.

Full-service payroll - Gusto automatically calculates and files payroll taxes, help keeps companies compliant, and provides awesome support.

Benefits that work for any team and budget - Gusto aims to make offering employee benefits a reality for any small business. Whether an organization is buying health insurance for the first time or wants to integrate an existing plan with payroll, Gusto can provide expert guidance. They'll help with add-ons like 401(k), life insurance, and commuter benefits, which the vendor says allows companies to create a competitive package to attract and retain employees.

Gusto Features

Payroll Management Features

  • Supported: Pay calculation
  • Supported: Payroll history for each employee
  • Supported: Benefit plan administration
  • Supported: Direct deposit files
  • Supported: Payroll tracking and auditing
  • Supported: Salary revision and increment management
  • Supported: Reimbursement management
  • Supported: Statutory form management

Additional Features

  • Supported: Background checks
  • Supported: Employee self-onboarding
  • Supported: Digital I-9s and W-4s
  • Supported: State new hire reporting
  • Supported: Health insurance administration
  • Supported: 401(k) retirement savings
  • Supported: HR Reporting
  • Supported: R&D tax credit service
  • Supported: 401(k) tax credit service

Gusto Screenshots

Screenshot of Gusto's automated payrollScreenshot of the time-off tracking interfaceScreenshot of the source of truth for HR data

Gusto Video

Gusto is more than payroll and benefits

Gusto Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUnited States
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

Gusto offers payroll, benefits and compliance capabilities. Gusto is scaled for small to mid-sized businesses, and emphasizes an easy to use interface.

Gusto starts at $46.

Paychex Flex, ADP Streamline Payroll, and QuickBooks Online are common alternatives for Gusto.

Reviewers rate Reimbursement management highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Gusto are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 528)

Gusto really surprised me with how easy it is!

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 22, 2024
From my personal experience thus far, I think Gusto is a fantastic tool for benefits, onboarding, and payroll. I started at a 15-20 person company about a week ago. My onboarding process was so easy. I was able to do everything from the app with no problems. Seamless. The website is also fully functional and easy to use. I'm electing benefits now and have never seen such an easy process. There's no fluff; it's just clean-looking and highly functional! Honestly, I have no complaints for me, except it took me a second to figure out how to elect for direct deposit when I was setting up my info. I'm super impressed.

Nearly Perfect Payroll Software

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 12, 2024
DS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Gusto
9 years of experience
I think if you are a small business, with anywhere from 0-50 employees, Gusto is a good choice. If you start getting bigger than that, it might not be the right tool. To me, it feels best suited for that range of employees. It isn't that it couldn't work with more, I just don't know that I feel like that is who it was made for.

Excellent Platform for Utilizing Paytime and Spending Habits (Insights)

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 08, 2024
One area where Gusto is well suited is in the ability to easily track pay and see where improvements can be made in a person's spending habits. This allows for better productivity for a person. Additionally, I enjoy that you can track our time by clocking time in and time out directly on the website. This is great for someone like me who works remotely. However, I wish that the Gusto Wallet app would improve by adding a Track your Time feature where you can clock time in and time out without always going directly to the website to do it. One area in which it may b less appropriate is in the formality of it. Someone who is working for a casually, laid-back company might not need all the extensive features that Gusto provides.

Gusto Rocks

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 30, 2024
WM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Gusto
1 year of experience
Gusto is very user friendly and anytime support is needed, they are always there to help and provide great support.

GUSTO - My preferred choice for payroll management

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 28, 2024
ES
Vetted Review
Verified User
Gusto
3 years of experience
Gusto offers several options to fit a company's needs, and they are priced accordingly. I feel we receive a fair price compared to other third-party payroll providers, and I also believe the user experience is far better than other payroll companies.
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